HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080830060
Bassin · #1080830060
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 3 administrative regions : Birao, Ouadda, Yalinga
Sub-basin area
2 159km²
Upstream area
2 159km²
Discharge
2,19m³/s
Mean elev.
701m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2065.2 km²96.1% of basin
- 82.4 km²3.8% of basin
- 2.5 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Yata-Ngaya
IUCN IVFaunal Reserve
1340.68 km² overlap
Andre Felix
IUCN IINational Park
788.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
90 distinct species · 191 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,2°C
Annual rain
923mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
40mm/an
PET
2 088mm
AET
780mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
266cm
Forest
33%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)